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Ras Beirut. Coordinates: 33°54′N 35°28′E. Omar Daouk Villa, Qoreitem, Ras Beirut. Manara Neighbourhood in Ras Beirut. Ras Beirut ( Arabic: رأس بيروت, "Tip of Beirut") is an upscale residential neighborhood in Beirut. It has a mixed population of Christians, Muslims and Druze individuals. Ras Beirut is associated with intersect ...
ation, Ras Beirut remains today a socially mixed area juxtaposing wealth and poverty, although much of the poverty is invisible. According to a recent survey (Kaddour et al. 2014), one-third of the area’s households live below the minimum wage, which was USD 4000 per year at the time of the survey (2009–2010), and 50% live on a yearly
- Ras Beirut’s Literary Past
- Preserving Memories
- Reading Culture
- ‘It Was Heaven’
Before the founding of the American University in Beirut (AUB) in 1866, known then as the Syrian Protestant College, the Ras Beirut neighbourhood was a semi-rural area hosting livestock and farmers, as shown by photographs taken by AUB professor Franklin Moore between 1892 and 1902. An influx of students and teachers from the villages and mountains...
In the spring of 2008, coinciding with the closure of the Ras Beirut Bookshop, the neighbourhood sat on the cusp of another construction boom, followed by major spikes in rents as more and more investors turned their eyes and wallets to the city. At the same time, Rima Rantisi, a lecturer at the AUB and editor of the literary magazine Rusted Radish...
According to Index Mundi, Lebanon’s literacy rate was at 95 percent in 2018, ranking amongst the highest in the Middle East, just behind Palestine, which has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Yet Abou Jaoude does not believe that many students are reading books these days - or are in tune with Arabic literature being produced from the...
For some, the power of reading is inextricably linked to a brighter future. The Alsama project,a Lebanese organisation that provides education for teenagers living in the country’s refugee camps, recently organised a trip to take refugee girls to a bookshop. In May, creative writing teacher, publisher and Alsama CEO Meike Ziervogel took six of her ...
Analytical Maps of Ras Beirut. The Neighborhood Initiative presented these images as part of the background to the AUB - Ras Beirut case discussed at the American University in Cairo in November 2015 ( Universities and their Neighborhoods: An AUC-AUB conversation ). Students and researchers are welcome too use them.
The public photo exhibition recorded in sumptuous detail the development of the Beirut districts surrounding AUB’s campus since the university was founded 150 years ago. The images captured the changing landscape, built environment, and personae of Ras Beirut and Ayn Mreiseh. Many of the photographs included in the exhibition came from ...
Sep 5, 2018 · Abstract. This paper explores Ras Beirut’s current socio-spatial transformations from the perspective of its ‘original’ population, particularly small landowners vulnerable to urban renewal pressures. With reference to their accounts, it illustrates how certain aspects of neighbourhood change intersect with Lebanon’s complexities of ...
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